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... forest, apple and cherry orchards with the occasional strawberry field. Vineyards are also prevalent, especially as you get closer to the Bodensee. We have spent the last few days cycling along traffic free lanes and forest tracks.

On Tuesday we cycled down to the Bodensee through pretty villages, forest and vineyards. We passed an old house whose roof was covered with storks nesting on purpose built platforms. Everywhere you looked there were storks, ...

... Bob got through all of his, but I got a "doggy bag", and finished mine for afternoon tea. Delicious! It was then time for sad goodbyes to our new friends, David and Jenny, Linda and Ian, Yvonne and Renata, Jean and Guy, Lynne and Jo, and of course Patrick and Maree and Anja. Jim and Ann, like us were staying in Feldkirch tonight, and both Patrick and Anja took us back to Hotel Barens, so we got to say a ...

... metre. Being our last night, Patrick and Maree met us at 6:00 in the "purple room" for a debrief of the trip. Everyone expressed their enjoyment of the ten days and their appreciation for Patrick's, Anja's and Maree's efforts. Patrick and Anja's then joined us for our final dinner, yet another culinary delight. It is really hard writing this knowing that tomorrow we will leave. The possibility of a Return to Eden, will make leaving just that bit more ...

... fascinating to hear about a lifestyle that existed many years ago, and to see many of the everyday items used in those days. After looking at the museum there was time for a coffee fix for those who needed it, then it was back in the van to drive to the start of today's walk. Today it was a river walk. We followed the river for some time, taking in an interesting sulphur spring along the way. Here there was a tub which ...

... houses were just like in the Heidi books and the mountains and big green grasses pastures were straight out of the Sound of Music. It was really beautiful and we stopped to have our lunch at a beautiful look out point. Then we continued up, up up the wiggly winding road until we came to our hotel which was a ski resort in winter time, literally hanging off a cliff way way up in the mountains. We were so high up there were clouds outside the windows. ...